Paul Goldberger says that he has been involved with the house for 40 years, since he visited it as a student in the early 1970s.

I too toured the house with a group of Yale students in 1971 or 1972. Indeed, Goldberger was probably in the group of about a dozen of us who followed our professor, Vincent Scully, on a tour of buildings in eastern NY and southwestern CT.

Philip Johnson hosted us that day. There was a fascinating underground painting gallery that the video clip didn't enter and a playful little optical illusion pavilion on a pond that was built at perhaps 2/3rds scale. (It made the pond look larger and farther away.)

We also saw some "new brutalism" buildings (perhaps by IM Pei) and a new, gorgeously odd little house by Robert Venturi.

Johnson's main glass house is beautiful, but it was obviously derivative of Mies.